Projecting a TH1 from a TTree of a closed file

hi all

i’m using root version 5.32 and i don’t understand why this program shouldn’t work:

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#include
#include “TFile.h”
#include “TTree.h”
#include “TH1D.h”

int main() {

TFile* file = TFile::Open(“testfile.root”);
TTree* tree = (TTree*)file->Get(“tree_passedEvents”);

TH1D* h1 = new TH1D(“h1”, “”, 100, 0., 300.);
tree->Project(“h1”, “mt_top”, “”);

file->Close();

std::cout << h1->GetEntries() << std::endl;
std::cout << h1->GetMean() << std::endl;

return 0;

}

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it does work if i comment the line that closes the file, but in the usecase i need it for i’d like to have that TFile closed. in principle though, once the tree has been projected into the histogram, shouldnt the histogram be just a normal histogram, not linked anymore to the tree nor the file?

if needed you can find the code and the necessary rootfile in here: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 … xample.tar

thanks
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